Mark Norman Francis

@cackhanded.net

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Internet boffin.

Screengrab of my invitation to join the mySociety org on GitHub.
Screenshot of the block account action
Summary output of tasks, showing how much is done and how much is not, per file. On this project I am currently 98 of 212 tasks done.
Screenshot of a Polymarket post to X: “BREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.”
Album cover of Prince of the Deep Water by The Blessing. A picture including an arty four poster bed, a swing, an anchor, a stormy backdrop, double exposure where some boots are visible but fades out before the leg, the album name spelled out in physical letters in a circle. It is in colour but muted, almost sepia.
Screenshot of an Apple Health notification saying “You scored a 69 last night due to getting fewer hours of sleep.”
An M&S custard cream biscuity Easter egg.
An old Mission speaker with about fifty multicoloured postit note pads stacked on top. General detritus lies around.
A plate of roast poussin, carrots, peas, brussels sprout, pigs in blankets, and of course the potat done in goose fat.
Three stuffed poussin ready for roasting in a tray and on a vegetable base
The robot Gort standing in front of a landed Flying Saucer imposingly.
Screenshot of an Evri delivery tracking page saying I’m getting a package from Skynet Worldwide Express today.
Text appearing on a back-projected screen in NORARD. "Greetings Professor Falken. Hello. A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."
A poster from Mozilla, dated around 2006-8. A drawing of a supercute fox looks imploringly at you with huge eyes. The words below read: Please don’t hurt the web — use open standards.
A playlist entitled “Songs for My Funeral”. I’ve added a track from the GTA:V soundtrack called “No Happy Endings”. The recommendations are other tracks from that soundtrack.
Karaoke Pontifex
My PlayStation gameplay stats for Surviving Mars. Played 768 hours. One platinum trophy unlocked, two gold, thirteen silver, and 48 bronze.
Darla, the first on-screen vampire in Buffy the Vampire Slayer tv series.
A bag of Korean Lays cucumber flavour crisps, a glass ramekin and knife with remains of butter, and two slices of buttered white bread in a plate, one of which is covered in crisps.
A green tshirt showing a cartoon slice of bread and bag of crisps (which in NO WAY resembles Walkers, no siree) holding hands, surrounded by text “Crisp Sandwich Day — October 25th”.
A stockpot full of gumbo-to-be bubbling away on the hob.
A brown tshirt with a design of pink spectacles, a pink heart, and a pink asterisk — a visual pun on “geeks love everything” and a second, ruder, meaning.
I got 69% in my last game of vole.wtf’s Daybrix. My record over the past month is patchy, most days I didn’t even play.
iOS Lock Screen, the image is an Iconfactory render of the “Ad Astra Per Aspera” poster from the Those Old Scientists episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. The widgets show some events that will occur soon, the weather, and a shortcut to Things.
A bottle of Biona tart cherry juice. It does not lie, it is tart. Whoof.
A screenshot of an email from Ocado telling me the app and website are being replaced next week. This makes me nervous that nothing will work and I will starve.
A photo showing the cover of Space: 1999 The Roleplaying Game core rulebook sat on my desk.
“CHiPs” title card, letters superimposed on a shot of the badge of the California Highway Patrol on the fuel tank of a motorbike.
An American freeway sign showing exit 404.
In the freezer we see several metal sheets on which rest ziplock bags, full of delicious food, kept separated by stock cubes so they can freeze as flat as possible.
A bunch of pre-made punchy cocktail bottles in the fridge.
Battery widget with entries for both 0% and 100% for my AirPods Case
A paper bag full of chips. Like, chip shop chips, proper fat bois. Not crisps.
All nine books that make up the “BECMI” release of D&D sitting on my desk.
A open bag of Ghirardelli caramel squares sitting on my desk. It is one of the best chocolates and I will brook no discussion on the matter.
A large metal stockpot with a glass lid, and inside you find many servings worth of pre-gumbo bubbling away.
Screengrab of the Apple Health “time asleep” chart which is wasting half the screen width on the decision to include all of the two hour period of 5am–7am even though I woke up at 5:09, leading to horizontally compressed data visualisation.
My feet up on the sofa and beyond them the opening title of Wicked on my mahoosive TV.
Screenshot of Daybrix stats. I have a current streak of just 2 after missing a day. Longest streak 44 days. Fastest win 20.1s. 551 games played, 91.8% win rate.
A screenshot of the iOS app Due, showing a reminder that has just occurred entitled “gumbo”.
Chris Tucker as Ruby Rhod in The Fifth Element, with a fabulous leopard print outfit sporting a huge collar.
A Christmas plate of poussin, potatoes, peas, carrots, sprouts, and pigs in blankets. Fucking nom.